It Hurts Down There
The Bodily Imaginaries of Female Genital Pain
1st Edition
Published on 31. August 2015
342 pages
978-1-4384-5887-8 (ISBN)
Description
Tracks the medical emergence and treatment of vulvar pain conditions in order to understand why so many US women are misinformed about their sexual bodies.
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Christine Labuski is Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and the coauthor (with Nicholas Copeland) of The World of Wal-Mart: Discounting the American Dream.
Content
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Prologue: A Fourteen-Foot-Tall Vagina
1. Insinuation: A Biocultural Condition
2. Examination: Clinical Interpretations of Vulvar Pain
3. Accumulation: The Materiality of Absence
4. Manifestation: (Un)conscious Presencing
5. Integration: Coming Together or Falling Apart
6. Generation: Novel Morphologies
7. Evaluation: Concluding Thoughts
Epilogue: Collaboration
Notes
References
Index
Acknowledgments
Prologue: A Fourteen-Foot-Tall Vagina
1. Insinuation: A Biocultural Condition
2. Examination: Clinical Interpretations of Vulvar Pain
3. Accumulation: The Materiality of Absence
4. Manifestation: (Un)conscious Presencing
5. Integration: Coming Together or Falling Apart
6. Generation: Novel Morphologies
7. Evaluation: Concluding Thoughts
Epilogue: Collaboration
Notes
References
Index
